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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Thoughts of a KDE sceptic
From:       Jeffrey D Anderson <JDAnderson () lbl ! gov>
Date:       1999-11-16 20:00:48
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tim@maths.tcd.ie writes:
 > 
 > > User split - I will not be using xdvi, am in no way a TeXie (I might use LyX on
 > > occasion, thats as close as I'll get), I want an easy tool to view another
 > > inconvient file format for documentation etc ( dvi in this case)
 > 
 > There is no user split.
 > First of all, the vast majority of people wanting to view DVI files
 > have created them using TeX/LaTeX.
 > Secondly, of these 99% use xdvi (if under Unix).

I agree. In my experience it is very unusual for dvi files to be
distributed.  The author usually converts to postscript or PDF these
days.

 > Incidentally, have you actually used kdvi?
 > If so, I would be interested to know how,
 > since it seemed to me to be more or less unuseable,
 > or at least incompatible with teTeX as shipped with RedHat-6.0/1,
 > and the same would presumably be true of other Linux distributions.

I use kdvi all the time and have never had any difficulties.  I really
thought that the guts were just xdvi anyway.  It used to require xdvi
to be installed, and may still.  In some sense it really is just the
"wrapper" you said you wanted.  At least it used to be.

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